Ratchet and Clank Movie Reviews and Boxoffice performance

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Teeqoz said:

binary solo said:
Ouch! 20 reviews now with on 4 positive reviews, so 24% Tomato score. This is one of the lower review scores for a video game movie. Disappointing, but not unexpected since they emotionally flatlined the remake game compared to the original. If they'd turned the original game into the movie, and then had the actual game being different in that it was being told from a different perspective it might have worked better.

Well, it's not releasing here for another 10 or 12 weeks and given how it's likely to perform badly it may not even release in theatres here. Actually I hope it does skip theatres here that way I don't have to choose between supporting one of my favourite franchises by paying to the movie, and doing what I do with all movies that review this poorly: ignore them and maybe watch them when they come out on Blu-ray or even get played on TV.

I bet if the Pixar folks had been shown a picture of Ratchet and Clank, and told to make a buddy space adventure movie, and that's all they knew about R&C they would have made an 80%+ movie.

But I also doubt that would've been a Ratchet & Clank movie

Anyway, shame about the reviews. I'll probably still watch it though but any hopes of it doing good at the box office are firmly crushed now. Oh well. At least the game did/will do/does great.

I'd rather see a good movie with Ratchet and Clank in it than a shit Ratchet and Clank movie. Honestly, the story in the original game was better for adapting into a movie than the story in this remake. If they'd actually made the movie based on the original story, and left the game as telling the story from an alternative perspective that would have been better.